Transgender Mass Murderers: The Drugs and Demons That Drive Them | The American Spectator

Yesterday, an angry, mentally ill, and demon-possessed young man who believed himself to be transgender went into a Catholic church in Minnesota during morning prayers, where school children were praying, and launched a killing spree. He said, in his YouTube explainers, that he didn’t deserve what he was dealing with, and then, with a different timbre in his voice, he answered himself and said, “Well, they don’t deserve it either.” Like J.R.R. Tolkien’s Gollum character, he referenced in the video, he called his guns “my precious.” Gollum, a divided and ruined creature, possessed of a greed for what he could not have, descended into madness and talked to the voices in his head. Gollum’s obsession ultimately consumed him. This divided and ruined human’s obsession took his internal violence out on the world and killed two children and wounded many others.

The Annunciation Church murderer, who shall remain nameless here, chose his Catholic targets purposefully. He drew out the church floor plan. He knew children would be there and at what time. He amassed an arsenal of weapons. He chose to destroy innocence.

On his weapons, he put labels. He enthused about killing President Trump. His inane babbling included diatribes against Jews. The voices in his head projected his hatred at the world, but he pointed his guns at Catholic children, two of whom paid with their lives.

The Catholic targets were intentional. The killer asked, rhetorically, “Who’s listening to your prayers now?” He mocked God, and he mocked Christian Catholics. Like many people consumed with self-loathing and hatred, he was angry at God and those who prayed to God.

Demons

The killer, like the transgender killers before him, hated God. There were Satanic symbols everywhere, and his manifesto was filled with not-so-subtle spiritual overtones. (RELATED: The Demons Have Taken Hold of Minneapolis)

These facts need to be laid out clearly and looked at and acknowledged. Evil exists. Satan exists. Demon-possessed people roam this earth seeking whom they may devour.

I am just gobsmacked that in their effort to immediately politicize a horrific tragedy in which children were murdered at prayer, the line that Democrat after Democrat seem to have chosen is “Where is your God?” – which, incidentally, the murderer wrote on the magazine of his gun https://t.co/qVrLyLHh1w

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) August 27, 2025

The killer and Democrats shared the same message, “Where is your God?” Jen Psaki scorned “thoughts and prayers” — just like the killer. It became a Democrat talking point. Interesting strategy — assuming the point of view of the murderer. Scott Jennings, on CNN, illuminated the folly of this perspective when most Americans, on their worst days, get on their knees and pray. Americans pray because intercession actively works. That the evil spirits that infected this killer and that enveloped this holy place CAN be countered by the spirit of love. Prayer is action. The rest of the CNN panel sat in chagrined silence.

There is a spiritual war for our children. If Satan can’t convince mothers to kill their babies in the womb, he’s hard at work to destroy the minds and bodies of children as early as possible.

The medical, educational, and pharmacological industries are only too happy to help Satan reach his end goal as quickly as possible.

This boy changed his name in high school with his parents’ permission. A minor, a teenager going through the angst stage, took hormones and likely took depression drugs. Is this young man responsible for his premeditated actions when opening fire at the church? Yes. Should Americans examine the reasons why the Devil made him do it? Absolutely.

Drug Spirits

There’s a reason alcohol is called spirits. Alcohol changes the biochemistry so completely in some people that they become different humans and do things they would never do otherwise if not inebriated. Somehow, though, chemicals introduced into the body specifically to manipulate hormones and mood are not examined when mass murders happen. Why is that? The most obvious reason is money: broadcasters don’t want to bite the pharmaceutical hand that feeds them. It’s time to examine these drugs and their side effects.

In around 10 percent of the population, for any given drug, the opposite of the intended effect happens. That is, if 90 percent of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) users feel less depressed taking the drug, 10 percent will feel the opposite. Maybe the opposite isn’t sadder. For men, who often have two main emotions, happiness and anger, the opposite emotion might be rage, not sadness. The problems with SSRIs are not limited to only 10 percent of users, however. Studies have shown dramatic problems with this class of drugs.

There is a long Substack post by Midwestern Doctor that is worth reading in full, and I encourage you to do so. He lays out the case for why these meds are so dangerous. Here’s a bit of what he says:

Much like the vaccine industry, the psychiatric industry will always try to absolve their dangerous medications of responsibility and will aggressively gaslight their victims. Despite these criticisms, there are three facts can be consistently found throughout the literature on akathisia homicides which Peter Gøtzsche (an expert in this area) argues irrefutably implicate psychiatric medications as the cause of violent homicides:

• These violent events occur in people of all ages, who by all objective and subjective measures were completely normal before the act and where no precipitating factors besides the psychiatric medication could be identified.
• The events were preceded by clear symptoms of akathisia.
• The violent offenders returned to their normal personality when they came off the antidepressant.

Numerous cases where this has happened are summarized within this article from the Palm Beach Post. In most of those cases, a common trend of these spontaneous acts of violence emerges: the act of violence was immediately preceded by a significant change in the psychiatric medications used by the individual. In one case, shortly before committing one of these murders, one of the perpetrators also journaled that, while taking Prozac, that he felt as if he was observing himself “from above.”

Why aren’t these medications monitored more carefully? Why are they dispensed so freely? At this link, you’ll find a list of mass shooters on psychotropic medications. Hint: It’s all of them.

To close this section, I’d like to share what a commenter said about his experience on SSRIs in the Midwestern Doctor’s post:

Timothy Williams

My mother started me on Prozac as a teenager. I transitioned to Zoloft due to side effects and kept a diary in college. The contents are incredibly difficult to read and appear to me now, even though they are in my own handwriting, as if they were written by another person.

The manic, narcissistic and solipsistic themes in the diary closely parallel and prefigure Eliott Rodger’s manifesto (like him, I also attended UCSB, several years before his rampage). It included suicidal and homicidal ideations that I rejected at the time only for being impractical. It was as though I had no sense of the personhood of other people and there are many episodes in the diary illustrating that I was completely unable to fathom other people’s perfectly normal reactions to my antisocial behavior.

Halfway through the diary, I stopped taking Zoloft cold turkey, aware that it was deranging my thoughts. The narcissism and solipsism vanished, replaced by self-aware humility. I never took antidepressants again. I graduated, got a job, got married and had three normal, healthy children. [Emphasis added]

I largely forgot about that period in my life until I discovered the diary 25 years later while moving. I nearly destroyed it, but forced myself to read through it, and now I have a deeper grasp of how evil and dangerous these pharmaceuticals can be. I will never let my children take these dangerous poisons and I will use my own story as a cautionary tale if I have to.

The takeaway I want to share with you is that a great deal of the solipsistic and narcissistic behavior we witness in the world today may entirely be an artifact of antidepressants.

When we who don’t use drugs are walking around in public, we assume that people are normal, but it’s plausible that 80% or more are either acutely high or coming down from some kind of psychotropic substance. Once we start seeing the world this way, everything from culture to economics to politics starts making a lot more sense.

We are talking about homicidal mass murderers on SSRIs. What about the 50 percent of liberal women diagnosed with a mental illness? Their level of deranged hysteria and strange political activism makes more sense if viewed through a drug-induced haze. Consider:

Older age was also associated with higher psychiatric drug use. About 25% of adults 60 to 85 reported use compared with 9% of adults 18 to 39 years of age. Also, women were significantly more likely than men to take medication for a mental health issues.

But they’re not alone:

Nearly 17% of Americans — 1 in 6 adults — took a drug to treat a mental illness at least once in 2013, with antidepressants as the most common prescription filled.

About 12% of adults said they used antidepressants; 8.3% filled a prescription for an anxiolytic, sedatives or hyponotic; and 1.6% reported taking an antipsychotic.

American citizens are being infected with “spirits” that change their mental state and create narcissistic, manic, paranoid people.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you or someone you love is taking a psychotropic medication, DO NOT QUIT COLD TURKEY. These medications are powerful and should be weaned, gently, under strict supervision.

Medicating Adolescence

Transgenderism didn’t exist 10 years ago. It was a thing no one talked about and rarely, if ever, happened. Cross-dressers always existed, but cross-dressing didn’t necessarily even mean a man was gay. He might just be deviant. (As in, deviating from the norm.)

The myth of transgenderism has become a cultural phenomenon driven by a social contagion. Now, many children who were neurodivergent, socially awkward, or sexually insecure or frustrated (what teen isn’t some form of all of these?) assume that the problem isn’t puberty, it’s that they were born in the wrong body. As I’ve written before, all humans, teenage or otherwise, feel, at some point, that their material existence is warped and misshapen. Being a human is filled with pain, both physical and emotional, and often, suffering. Teenagers, fresh and idealistic, feel this pain more acutely because they have not spent a lifetime leveling up — experiencing difficulty, overcoming, and then attenuating to the challenges that life brings.

We once understood that adolescence was, by definition, awful. Now, averse to pain and ignorant of life-cycle realities like birth, death, pain, and suffering, children and their parents try to immunize them from psychological pain, and normal healthy development, and inure them with medication. And if the teen, who has little experience and nearly no wisdom because of their neophyte status, decides that his or her difficulty stems from his awkward sexuality, he might, with a counselor, teacher, peer, or parent’s help, decide he’s transgender.

Transgenderism brings a whole new set of chemical cocktails and introduces them into a rapidly hormonally changing body. It’s insanity to consider doing this to a child. Give a developing female megadoses of testosterone, and the doctor induces a rage state in the girl. Chloe Cole, a detransition activist, speaks of her anger and urge to violence on testosterone, as well as her depression. This is normal. Testosterone at the levels used to induce masculinization will cause these sorts of violent feelings. It’s a known effect.

Conversely, giving a man estrogen confuses the body, too. Here’s the AI summation from multiple studies on excess estrogen in men:

Excess estrogen in men can lead to several psychological side effects. Elevated estrogen levels are associated with depression, low mood, and increased psychological distress, regardless of body weight or testosterone levels. This can manifest as persistent feelings of sadness, irritability, anxiety, and mood swings. The impact on mood can be significant, potentially leading to diminished role functioning and a poorer quality of life. Furthermore, high estrogen levels can contribute to fatigue and a lack of energy, which can exacerbate feelings of low mood and reduce motivation. These psychological symptoms are linked to the disruption of the normal testosterone-to-estrogen balance, which is crucial for mental well-being.

Layer this onto a pubescent male with 4x the testosterone of a healthy adult male, and doctors have induced a hormonal witches’ brew of psychosis when paired with SSRIs or other psychotropic drugs.

Drugs + Ideology = Demons

Giving cross-sex hormones to a confused, depressed teenager (again, who does this not apply to at some point in the adolescent journey?) and layering it on top of psychotropic medication induces an altered psychological-bio-social state that gives place for the devil.

A shy, sad teenager can become a homicidal maniac under the influence of these drugs, but add a grievance mindset borne of reductionistic political ideology, and demons are practically guaranteed. The young person is deadened emotionally, lacking empathy. Teenagers are narcissistic by nature, but paired with the blunting effect of SSRIs and the depersonalized agitation (akathisia), the distress can turn violent.

The Minnesota murderer spent hours perseverating on his “enemies.” He documented his hate and malice. His political rantings were a toxic soup of lefty talking points from hating Trump to hating Jews to hating Indians. But his real grief was with God. And his rage felt entirely justified. He was taking action! He was doing something to punish God-believers specifically.

A few days before the murders, Minnesota Democrats opined about trans rights, and the lieutenant governor wore a shirt meant to incite violence. Protect Trans Rights! the shirt blared over the image of a knife. These messages matter, and they have been heard and digested by a discontented generation of doped-up misfits hellbent on revenge.

Stop the Madness

These mass murders are not inevitable. Like transgenderism, they didn’t exist at this scale a generation ago. They are a social contagion phenomenon. That’s good news, actually, because it means that the fever can pass and the insanity can stop.

How can this be achieved:

1. Start teaching people that adversity is normal, that difficulty and suffering are part of human existence, and the solution is developing resilience. Resilience can be taught through teaching social skills, encouraging social activities, choosing activities with inherent hardship (like sports or learning an instrument, or doing anything challenging and new), and through education. People who go to church hear stories of suffering and overcoming. The idea that life is going to be easy is anathema to Christian doctrine, which teaches that Christ died for us and we share in His suffering and He shares in ours.
2. Stop medicating every discomfort. Oftentimes, psychological stress has a bio-social element. That is, the body needs some nutrition, exercise, sleep, or some other form of therapeutic activity to self-regulate more effectively. Additionally, a child or an adult cannot be viewed in isolation from their environment. A person grieving a loss may need the quiet presence of a friend. Death will cause sadness and grief. We used to understand that people needed support during these times of distress. The hugs, food, and presence were the medicine. Same goes for teenagers. When they are anxious or depressed about their social standing, their bodies, their studies, or all of the above, what they need is help and guidance through these choppy emotional waters, not to be told that there’s something wrong with them and that medicine will fix it.
3. Eliminate transgenderism from the lexicon. It needs to go back to not being a thing. There are biological realities of owning a male or female body, and there is nothing wrong with anyone’s body. There needs to be acceptance of what is, and there needs to be acceptance that life is sometimes difficult and that humans feel disassociated and strange in their bodies. That doesn’t mean that someone needs hormones and to have body parts lopped off. Transgenderism induces a lifetime of sexual dysfunction and hormonal misery.
4. Bring back sanitariums and mental asylums. Placed in bucolic environments, sanitariums were for convalescence, recovery, and support. There are far too many people who are a danger to themselves or others, but there’s no place to put them. For the imminently dangerous, there needs to be places where these folks can be held with the idea of getting them to a place of sanity — this might mean taking them off medication. That would mean a total revamp of the current medical model, but the current medical model is not working. Families need more support when a child or parent is going off the rails, but families will resist seeking it if the solutions seem worse than the problem.

These killers have biosocial problems that lead to spiritual deformity. The two nearly always go together. Many an exorcist has said that demons prey on the weak, not the strong. The drugs, hormones, and ideology take an already fragile person and make them weaker and more unstable. This gives place for all sorts of demonic activity.

But it can change. It has to. Mass murdering is something Americans should never get used to — especially since it doesn’t have to happen.

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